, under the Vichy regime
, on 22, 23 and 24 January 1943. Assisted by the French police, which was directed by René Bousquet
, the Nazis organized a raid to arrest Jewish people. The police controlled the identity
of 40,000 people, and the operation unfortunately succeeded in sending 2,000 Marseillese people first to Fréjus
, then to the camp of Royallieu near Compiègne
, in the Northern Zone of France, and then to Drancy internment camp
, last stop before the extermination camps.
Festina lente.
Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing that we ought to do, we have no time for anything else—we are the busiest people in the world.
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
Haste makes waste.